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Valencia Shante

Reno,NV
Valencia Shante

Summary

Diligent Senior Product Manager offering [Number] years of success in product roadmap development, market research and data analysis. Highly skilled in identifying opportunities to maximize revenue. Driven and strategic with proven history of superior market penetration and product launch.


Goal-oriented marketing expert with natural talents in developing and implementing successful strategies, driving profits, increasing market shares and strengthening customer dominance. Hardworking, performance-oriented leader offering proven expertise in project development, team supervision and campaign enhancement. Prepared to bring [Number]+ years of progressive experience and take on challenging position with opportunity to make lasting impact on company and customer success.

Overview

8
years of professional experience

Work History

Vaco, LLC
Walnut Creek, CA

Trust & Safety Associate
08.2022 - Current

Job overview

  • `Responsible for Identifying, Evaluating, Monitoring, Reviewing, Investigating, and Escalating visual, written, and auditory content that goes against Trust & Safety Community Guidelines and Policies.
  • Learning new skills and applying them daily tasks to improve efficiency and productivity.

Feeding The Divine Feminine

Freelance Food Blogger
01.2021 - Current

Job overview

  • Conduct extensive research to provide facts and statistics for articles and blogs on nutrition, spirituality, and wellness for women.
  • Cultivates social media following across four platforms with more than 26K followers.
  • Maintain aesthetics of blog through images and troubleshooting issues.

Ridge House, Inc
Reno, NV

Contracts & Compliance Manager/Learning and Development Specialist
01.2020 - 08.2020

Job overview

  • Managed, supervised and controlled execution and compliance of securing $ 3.5 million in state, federal, and hospital contracts.
  • Identified potential areas of compliance vulnerability and risk to develop and implement corrective action plans.
  • Successfully designed, prioritized, and launched a Food Management Initiative & 3 training programs to addressed long-standing financial problems & meet department needs; Cooking class, Nutrition Education, and Urban Farming.

SUNY College Of Agriculture & Technology At Cobles
Cobleskill, NY

Product Manager
12.2019 - 09.2020

Job overview

  • Developed and implemented strategies to optimize product performance across all phases of product lifecycle, from launch to distribution.
  • Improved product marketing objectives by constructing communication initiatives and branding strategies to increase client outreach.
  • Documented user stories, specifications and product features into detailed work order to communicate across teams and build mandatory requirements.

New York State
Albany, NY

Compliance Specialist II
04.2019 - 08.2019

Job overview

  • In the Office of Minority & Women-Owned Businesses, managed 10+ million-dollar contracts and by directly assisting small businesses with order fulfillment operations, payments, quality control, reimbursements, supply chain throughout the state of New York.
  • Identified deficiencies, discrepancies, misinformation, and other issues with contracts in order to determine compliance status.
  • Maintained knowledge of supply chain products and applicable requirements, processes, procedures, internal policies and regulations.

Belvedere Health Services
Albany, NY

Healthcare Administrator
11.2018 - 04.2019

Job overview

  • Re-strategized Social Worker’s workflow and client’s engagement that reduced complaints by 50%
  • Compiled clients to housing data in county that reduced hospitalizations and long-term care by 20%.
  • Developed and updated policies and procedures, maintaining compliance with statutory, regulatory and local, state and federal guidelines relating to HIPAA, benefits administration and general liability.

Corbin Hill Food Project
New York, NY

Regional Operations Manager/Product Manager
06.2016 - 08.2017

Job overview

  • Driven product development strategy and execution by partnering & B2B sales
  • Re-designed detailed operational plans for sales partners, increased sales revenue by 20%.
  • Conducted monthly technical training for 3rd party AgriTech, supply and logistic, and FoodTech software companies.
  • Successfully designed, prioritized, and launched two initiatives; the first Fresh Food Pantries distributing over 70,000 pounds of fresh food in food deserts. Faith Based Food pilot program that educated & trained serving over 1,700+ customers weekly.
  • Displayed exemplary negotiation skills when communicating with suppliers and vendors regarding contracts, policies and deadlines.

Project Eats
New York, NY

Associate Product Manager (Intern)
05.2015 - 11.2015

Job overview

  • Thrived in fast-paced a FoodTech start-up, highly-adept team to develop and prioritize product features and build product roadmap.
  • Successfully designed, prioritized, and launched two Food Prescription Programs with a return of 50% increase in revenue.
  • Collected customer requirements, directed testing and conducted continuous evaluations to make proactive adjustments to marketing approaches.

Caminar, Inc
Vallejo, CA

Senior Program Manager
12.2010 - 08.2013

Job overview

  • Performed program research, analyzed data collection to develop cost estimates and budgets. resulting in successfully increasing 80k+ of SAMHSA and HUD grants
  • Successfully designed, prioritized, and launched three training programs and curriculums increasing state and federal funding by $450k.
  • Decreased Solano County's hospitalization and utilization by 30% of adults with mental diagnosis.

Education

Certificate | Trust & Safety Institute

University Overview

State University NYC

MBA from Management

University Overview

UTS at Columbia University

Masters from Food Studies & Community Health

University Overview

San Diego State University

B.S from Social Psychology

University Overview

Skills

Compliance Operations Management Trainingundefined

Timeline

Trust & Safety Associate
Vaco, LLC
08.2022 - Current
Freelance Food Blogger
Feeding The Divine Feminine
01.2021 - Current
Contracts & Compliance Manager/Learning and Development Specialist
Ridge House, Inc
01.2020 - 08.2020
Product Manager
SUNY College Of Agriculture & Technology At Cobles
12.2019 - 09.2020
Compliance Specialist II
New York State
04.2019 - 08.2019
Healthcare Administrator
Belvedere Health Services
11.2018 - 04.2019
Regional Operations Manager/Product Manager
Corbin Hill Food Project
06.2016 - 08.2017
Associate Product Manager (Intern)
Project Eats
05.2015 - 11.2015
Senior Program Manager
Caminar, Inc
12.2010 - 08.2013
Certificate | Trust & Safety Institute
10.2022
State University NYC
MBA from Management
01.2019
UTS at Columbia University
Masters from Food Studies & Community Health
05.2016
San Diego State University
B.S from Social Psychology
05.2003
Valencia Shante